Prediction Health

Vanderbilt University

[Update (8.2023): SBIR/STTR funding total - $222k, Venture funding total - $3.98M] Prediction Health is revolutionizing patient care and enhancing the efficiency of clinicians and administrators. Designed specifically for Physical Therapy (PT) compliance and documentation, 'PT Practice Intel' simplifies documentation, compliance, and operational excellence. By reading and analyzing free form notes and EHR data, it automates the laborious tasks, reducing burnout, and increasing efficiency, hence fostering a better environment for outstanding patient care.

Innerworld

Vanderbilt University

Innerworld offers a safe, immersive virtual platform designed to enhance patient engagement and facilitate the exploration of emotions and behaviors. Through our interactive therapy world, users learn life-changing Cognitive Behavioral Immersion™ (CBI) tools. Our aim is to help users navigate their mental health journey and progressively move towards actual social interaction.

HeroWear

Vanderbilt University

[Update (8.2023): SBIR/STTR funding total - $1.9M, Venture funding total - $2.85M] Working men and women lift every day. They do it in warehouses and on production lines. In offices and combat zones. Every day, they lift the economy worldwide. Whether it’s the day-to-day grind or responding to a crisis, their strength supports us all. And they deserve gear that sustains their strength, for work and for life. That makes their job safer. The HeroWear Apex means that their weight is over. The world’s first exosuit for all, built from the ground up for both men and women, the Apex is a back-assist exosuit that uses a proprietary band-based mechanism to reduce strain on the back without getting in the way.

SkyNano Technologies

Vanderbilt University

Using patent-pending technology developed at Vanderbilt University, our technique overcomes cost and scaleability limitations associated with traditional manufacturing techniques, while also giving commercial viability to carbon conversion technologies through the introduction of a high-value secondary material produced from greenhouse gas inputs. Our technique relies on electrochemistry, rather than solely catalysis, and results in a highly efficient process to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into useful functional nanomaterials.(6.2022 - SkyNano was selected to receive $2M in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The funding is part of the ARPA-E HESTIA program, which prioritizes overcoming barriers associated with carbon-storing buildings, including scarce, expensive and geographically limited building materials. As of August 2022, SkyNano has raised ~$8.5M (million) in non-dilutive funding from a variety of federal, state, and commercial sources.)

AbSeek Bio

Vanderbilt University

The human immune system participates in complex interactions with virtually all other systems in the body. In particular, the B-cell component of the adaptive immune response plays a role in various disease settings, including infectious disease, cancer, autoimmunity, cardiovascular, hematologic, neurologic diseases, and others. In addition, antibodies (a product of B cells) are effectively used in diagnostics, therapy, and prevention. To address these significant challenges with current technologies for B cell characterization and antibody discovery, we recently developed a novel technology that, for a given sample, enables the mapping of antibody sequence to antigen specificity from a single high-throughput experiment for a large number of antigens and B cells at a time.